PLAYAS, N.M. -- The eerie silence in this once-bustling mining town won't last
long. Soon, helicopters and planes will zoom overhead, and the buzz among locals
will be of bio-weapons, agro-terrorism and suicide bombings.

Playas -- population about 60 -- is destined to be bought up by a New Mexico
university and transformed into a sprawling classroom for lessons in
anti-terrorism.

With help from the federal government, the New Mexico Institute of Mining and
Technology has agreed in principle to buy Playas from Phelps Dodge Corp., the
mining company that built it in the 1970s.

The $5 million deal includes 259 company-owned homes, apartment buildings, a
community center, grocery store, medical clinic and air strip. Several hundred
nearby acres also are included.

Michael Hensley, a New Mexico Tech program manager, said the training center
could bring at least 200 jobs to Playas and possibly more high-paying technical
jobs once a proposed 600-acre research park is built.

"For our whole county, I think it's going to be life blood," said Hidalgo County
Commissioner Louise Peterson. "It's just so exciting for me to feel something
happening with this town."

For the residents, New Mexico Tech officials said they do not foresee anyone
being forced from their home once the deal to purchase the town has been signed.

But residents wonder -- they say they haven't been told what's in store. A
meeting planned earlier this year was canceled, they say.

"Your guess is as good as mine," said Bill Bollinger, head of what's left of
Playas' maintenance department. "I've heard probably 10 different stories so I
really don't know what's going to happen. I just hope it's the right thing."

Bollinger said things have been in limbo since 1999, when the company began
laying off workers from the smelter.

"We didn't know from one day to the next whether we had a job. So I guess you
kind of get used to it."

Since then, the post office has been gutted and nearly all of the houses have
been cleared of their furnishings. Wild grass is taking over the wide curving
streets.

Once the deal is sealed -- expected this week when institute representatives
meet with Phelps Dodge officials in Phoenix -- New Mexico State University and
the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will help plan terror simulations.
Classes could begin as soon as November.

Details are sketchy but people in the business of preventing terrorism are
ecstatic.

"We've got the door wide open," said Dennis Hunter, associate director of
training at Tech's Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center. "The
opportunities are limitless."

New Mexico Tech already conducts explosives testing and training at its Socorro
campus. In Playas, officials believe they have an ideal classroom in which to
train police and firefighters to respond to simulated attacks.

Trainers hope to set up realistic scenarios using homes in Playas as well as fly
helicopters and planes over the town.

Among other things, the National Emergency Response Training, Research and
Development Center at Playas will offer lessons on protecting pipelines and
transportation systems, and preventing suicide bombings. Research into animal
and plant diseases and ways to prevent agro-terrorism are also likely to be in
the mix.

"We are going to take a look at a lot of different things. We are going to take
a look at the things that we can do here and not anywhere else," Hunter said.

Tech -- a science and engineering university -- has done military research for
decades and has helped train thousands of police and firefighters. After the
1995 bombing of the federal courthouse in Oklahoma City, it began moving more
toward anti-terrorism programs. Since Sept. 11, 2001, that effort got more
impetus.

The residents of Playas remember when Phelps Dodge began building the town in
1972. Within two years, the first residents moved in and it wasn't long before
trucks were lining up to make deliveries to the smelter.

Bollinger, for one, wants to stay. So does Mapi Sanchez, who works in the
restaurant.

Sanchez, 42, who first arrived in 1976, says she gets lonely now that nearly all
of the residents are gone. She misses going for coffee in the mornings to visit
with friends.

Her daughter, who lives in Nevada, is encouraging her to leave.

"But you can't just get up and walk away," she said. "You've got to wait it out
and see what happens."

Deception is King, Reality is scoffed at !!!
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Deep Underground Military Bases and the Black Budget

"I love the country I am living in more than I love my life, but I would not be
standing before you now, risking my life, if I did not believe it was so. The
first part of this talk is going to concern deep underground military bases and
the Black Budget. The Black Budget is a secretive budget that garners 25% of the
gross national product of the United States. The Black Budget currently consumes
$1.25 trillion per year. At least this amount is used in black programs, like
those concerned with deep underground military bases. Presently, there are 129
deep underground military bases in the United States.

"They have been building these 129 bases day and night, unceasingly, since the
early 1940s. Some of them were built even earlier than that. These bases are
basically large cities underground connected by high-speed magneto-levity trains
that have speeds up to Mach 2. Several books have been written about this
activity. Al Bielek has my only copy of one of them. Richard Souder, a Ph.D.
architect*, has risked his life by talking about this. He worked with a number
of government agencies on deep underground military bases. In around where you
live, in Idaho, there are 11 of them.

(*Richard Souder ~ not to be confused with Richard Sauder, Ph.D., an underground
bases researcher and author of the book, 'Underground Bases and Tunnels: What is
the Government Trying to Hide'."
FULL STORY W/AUDIO HERE:
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/phil.htm